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To compete in today’s marketplace, corporations need to develop employees that do more than just show up every day to work: employees need to be engaged in their work. Unfortunately, companies have historically...

In Customer-Driven Operations Management, Christopher K. Ahoy proposes that an organization can have an advantage over its competition if it strives to become the best by moving from survival mode to...

In Seoul Man, Frank Ahrens shares his experience of leaving his job as a journalist for the Washington Post for a new, exciting career in South Korea. The Foreign Service assigned his wife, Rebekah, to...

In the investment world, the term “alpha” refers to returns in excess of expected risk, earned by fund managers who succeed in accurately forecasting the behavior of financial markets and other “beta” macroeconomic...

Animal Spirits dissects standard economic theories and demonstrates their failure to account for human emotion, even though emotions have a large impact on the economy. George A. Akerlof and Robert J....

The free market economy demands a profit-over-people approach. Driven by greed, markets incite self-destructive behaviors on a mass level. The targeting of natural human weaknesses is known as “phishing,” while the...

In When, Stuart Albert analyzes the influence of timing in business and day-to-day living. He describes the six temporal concepts of sequence, temporal punctuation, interval and duration, rate, shape,...

According to Albrecht’s Law, "Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity." This, says the author, is a situation that is all too common throughout business and...

A process for formulating a corporate vision and direction, and communicating that vision in a compelling way to everyone in the organization. Albrecht uses the metaphor of riding a train as a focusing concept for...